Correr Museum

The city’s beauty has often been described as ‘melancholic’, ‘sinister’ or ‘dreamlike’

Throned on her hundred isles

14 May 2016 9:00 am

It took the madness of genius to build such a wonderful impossibility. Patrick Marnham reviews a delightful new literary guide to Venice

Fernand Léger ‘s ‘The City’, 1919

Senses working overtime

22 March 2014 9:00 am

In 1914 Fernand Léger gave a lecture about modern art. By then recognised as a leading Cubist artist, he had…